Person
Rees, Albert Lloyd George (1916 - 1989)
FAA
- Born
- 15 January 1916
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 14 August 1989
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Chemist
Summary
Albert Rees was Head of the Chemical Physics Section, CSIR/O, Division of Industrial Chemistry 1944-1958 and Chief of the Division of Chemical Physics 1958-1978. He initiated research in electron microscopy, electron diffraction, optical spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, mass spectroscopy, solid-state physics (including studies of luminescence and fluorescence) and theoretical chemistry. He also contributed to the development of the Australian scientific instrument industry.
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Chronology
- 1936
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1938
- Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1939
- Career position - Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Western Australia
- 1940
- Career position - Beit Scientific Research Fellow and part-time lecturer in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London
- 1940 - 1944
- Career position - Gas Identification Officer for the Cities of Westminster and Wandsworth, UK
- 1941
- Education - Diploma of Imperial College completed at the Imperial College of Science and Technology
- 1941
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the Imperial College of Science and Technology
- 1941 - 1944
- Career position - Research Chemist with Philips Electrical Industries, UK
- 1944 - 1958
- Career position - Head of the Chemical Physics Section at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) / CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Industrial Chemistry
- 1945
- Award - Rennie Memorial Medal, Australian Chemical Institute
- 1948
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne
- 1948 - 1953
- Career position - Fellow, Australian Chemical Institute
- 1951
- Award - H.G. Smith Memorial Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 1951 - 1989
- Award - Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (FANZAAS)
- 1952
- Award - Archibald Liversidge Medal and Lecture, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1953 - 1989
- Award - Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI)
- 1954 - 1958
- Career position - Assistant Chief of the CSIRO Division of Industrial Chemistry
- 1954 - 1989
- Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1956 - 1965
- Career position - Chairman of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Pure and Applied Chemistry
- 1957 - 1958
- Career position - President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Victorian branch
- 1958 - 1978
- Career position - Chief of the CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics
- 1961 - 1970
- Career position - Chairman of CSIRO Chemical Research Laboratories
- 1963
- Career position - President of the ANZAAS Section B (Chemistry)
- 1964 - 1968
- Career position - Secretary of Physical Sciences at the Australian Academy of Science
- 1964 - 1973
- Career position - Chairman of the Australian Academy of Science International Relations Committee
- 1967 - 1968
- Career position - President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 1969 - 1971
- Career position - President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- 1971
- Award - Leighton Memorial Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 1978
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1979 - 1980
- Career position - Chairman of the Independent External Review of Defence Science and Technology Organisation
- 1981 - 1989
- Career position - Fellow of the Faculty of Science at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria
- 1987
- Award - Ian Wark Medal and Lecture, Australian Academy of Science
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Books
- Buchanan, Rod; McCarthy, Gavan; Scillio, Mark; O'Sullivan, Lisa, A Guide to the Records of Albert Lloyd George Rees (Melbourne: Australian Science Archives Project, 1993), 142 pp. Details
- Rees, A.L.G., Science in Bondage: the Inaugural Ian William Wark Lecture, 30 November 1987 (Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, 1987), 16 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Bartels, Ditta, 'Speech by Ditta Bartels at launch of the Guide to the Records of Albert Lloyd George Rees', History of Australian Science Newsletter, 32 (1994). http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hasn/no32/feats32.htm#rees. Details
- Rees, A. L. G., 'Ian William Wark 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (4) (1987), 533-548. https://doi.org/10.1071HR9870640533. Details
- Walsh, A.; and Willis, J. B., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (1) (1992), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920910031. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28059431. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94393987. Details
- Buchanan, Rod; Gavan McCarthy; Mark Scillio: with Lisa O'Sullivan, Albert Lloyd George Rees Guide to Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2004, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/rees/rees.htm. Details
- 'Rees, A L G (1916-1989)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-616407. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Rees, Albert Lloyd George', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000734p.htm. Details
- Ward, C., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Rees-Albert-Lloyd-George. Details
See also
- Hyde, B. G.; and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (2) (1992), 127-49. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920920127. Details
- Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details
Digital resources
McCarthy, G.J.
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